Why to Disable Windows 10 updates

Previous versions of Windows allowed us to hide or disable particular Windows updates, or even turn off Windows update altogether.

Windows 10 Home, however, doesn't have that option. It will automatically download all the available Windows 10 updates and automatically install them - or notify to schedule a restart - whether we like it or not.

Windows 10 Pro and Enterprise have a "Defer upgrades" option, but the Home version is by far the most popular.

After all, the only reason Windows XP is a dead operating system is that it won't get new updates anymore, so it will be vulnerable to future security exploits. By not running Windows update on our system, essentially we are killing our operating system before its time.

The fact is, though, that Windows 10 updates also include device drivers. And, especially now that Windows 10 is in its infancy, sometimes those device driver updates end up being problematic for our system.

In previous versions of Windows, we could just do a rollback or a system restore and then hide the particular driver update.

But there is no way to disable or hide Windows 10 updates from within Windows, so the faulty driver would keep getting reinstalled and perpetuate the problem.